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Looking for a Friend (audio story)

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Looking for a Friend was the eighth and final story of the fifth series of the Iris Wildthyme audio series, Wildthyme Reloaded.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

In a bar in central London, a strangely-dressed woman reappears night after night, drowning her sorrows and searching for a friend she left behind...

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Iris spent several years going to Stella's pub in Soho waiting to meet Panda again.
Iris travelled with Panda for years.
Iris gives Arthur a Polaroid of her and Panda on Christmas Eve 1926.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

This story was recorded on 14, 15, 16 and 18 January at The Moat Studios.
This story largely occurs in flashback.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Iris mentions that she once visited a meta-dimension where she existed only as a work of fiction. (PROSE: Wildthyme Beyond!)
The story closes with Brian Bonamy's song Girl You're My A-Side, which was mentioned but not heard in AUDIO: Comeback of the Scorchies.

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Official Looking for a Friend - Wildthyme Reloaded page at bigfinish.com

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Iris Wildthyme series

Big Finish Productions

Audio

Series 1	Wildthyme at Large • The Devil in Ms. Wildthyme

Series 2	The Sound of Fear • The Land of Wonder • The Two Irises • The Panda Invasion

Iris Wildthyme and the Claws of Santa

Series 3	The Iris Wildthyme Appreciation Society • Iris Rides Out • Midwinter Murders

Series 4	Whatever Happened to Iris Wildthyme? • Iris at the Oche • A Lift in Time

The Worlds of Big Finish	Kronos Vad's History of Earth (Vol. 36,379)

Wildthyme Reloaded	Comeback of the Scorchies • Dark Side • Oracle of the Supermarket • Murder at the Abbey • The Slots of Giza • High Spirits • An Extraterrestrial Werewolf in Belgium • Looking for a Friend

Prose

Wildthyme on Top

Most Horrid • The Sleuth Slayers • Minions of the Moon • Beguine • Blame Iris • Came to Believe • Rough Magic • The Mancunian Candidate • Iris and Irregularity • The Evil Little Mother and the Tragic Old Bat

Snowbooks Ltd

Novels

Enter Wildthyme • Wildthyme Beyond! • From Wildthyme with Love

Short stories

Resurrection Engines

Talented Witches

Obverse Books

Iris Wildthyme and the Celestial Omnibus	A Gamble with Wildthyme • Sovereign • The Unhappy Medium • Future Legend • Battleship Anathema • The Dreadful Flap • And Not a Drop to Drink • Iris Wildthyme y Señor Cientocinco contra Los Monstruos del Fiesta • Why? Because We Like You • The Scarlet Shadow • Only Living Girls

The Panda Book of Horror	Iris Wildthyme and the Unholy Ghost • Framed • Just the Ticket • The Party in Room Four • Party Kill Accelerator! • Apocalypse Slough • The Delightful Bag • Iris Wildthyme's Rainy Day Adventure • The Colour Scheme • Shadow of the Times Before • The Fag Hag from Hell • The Niceness • Channel 666 • Brenda's B&B • The Panda Book of Horror • Untitled

Ms Wildthyme & Friends Investigate	The Found World • The Irredeemable Love • Elementary, My Dear Sheila • The Shape of Things

Iris: Abroad	Annabel Regina • Chicken Fried Banana Republic • The Midnight Washerwomen • The Little Bighorn Casino • How to Play Four-dimensional Chinese Checkers, and Win • Panda on Ice • Couch Potatoes • Riviera Shakedown • Iris Wildthyme and the Colonic in Space • First Meetings • The Best Holiday Ever • The Story Eater • Hospitality

Wildthyme in Purple	The Big Crunch • Frank Reade, Jr.'s Electric Time Canoe • Dance of the Voodoo Valkyries • Iris in Dead Man's Gulch • Her and Allan • Running with Caesars • Amser Gwyllt • The Bronze Door • Flash Rogers Conquers the Universe! • The Web of Terror • The Many Lives of Zorro • Fantômville • The Devil Wears Panda

Lady Stardust	Modern Love • Hang onto Yourself • Slip Away • Low/Profile • Up the Hill Backwards • Cracked Actor

Iris: Fifteen	The Ninnies on Putney Common • Gimme Shelter • Time to Exist • Party Fears Two • God Engine Rhapsody • Project: Wildthyme • Our Tune • The Wildthyme Effect • Ouroboros • In Passing • Iris at the V&A • The Golden Hendecahedron • Samsāra • Iris and the Caliphate • Mix Her Own Adventure • Scream in Blue • Dog Days of Summer

Iris Wildthyme of Mars	Wandering Stars • Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Bad Weekend • Iris: Chess-Mistress of Mars • Death on the Euphrates • And a Dog to Walk • Talking with Spores • Doomed • The Last Martian • Lilac Mars • City of Dust • The Calamari-Men of Mare Cimmerium • Green Mars Blues

The Perennial Miss Wildthyme	Death of the Author • Right vs Left vs Wrong • Wildthyme and the Wolf • Dolores Smith and the Birthday Bear • The Girl Who Went up in Smoke • Onesies • The Opera of Samhain • A Grove Invisible • Michael Drake • The Midnight Empire • Self Possessed • Closure

A Clockwork Iris	Flasket Brinner and the Clockwork Heart • The Woman Who Sold the Moon • The Story Sorters • Being • Iris and the Dame • Petite Fours, Petite Mort • Panda and the Airship • Rattus Erectus • Tik, Tak. Snick, Snack • Timepeace • Parsley Sage, Rosemary and Wildthyme • Another Clockwork Iris

Wild Thymes on the 22	The Heart Pendulums • Rain and Regency • Iris Wildthyme & the Bush Offensive • Drowned in Moonlight • The Most Faithful Panda in the World • Hillbilly Heavens • The Haberdasher's Tale • The Exploding Somewhat Inevitable • The Brightest Stars in the Demimonde • Starstation to Starstation • The Magrs Conundrum! • Untitled No. 22

Locked In Space	Superunknown • Whatever Happened to Maybe Jane? • The Crazy Old Coot in the Cupboard • I Scrubbed the Crabs That Killed Sheffield • The Uncommon Route

Obverse Sextet	The Mystic Menagerie of Iris Wildthyme

The New Adventures of Iris Wildthyme	Iris Wildthyme and the Polythene Terror • Mother, Maiden, Crone